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Gove makes partial U-turn over plan to axe Booktrust funding

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  • Tuesday, January 4, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Education secretary Michael Gove has partly reversed the Government's decision to axe the 13m grant for programmes which provide free books for babies and children, after the move was slammed by writers including the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and children's author Philip Pullman.

Talking Tents are a winner

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  • Tuesday, January 4, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Encouraging a love of language, stories and reading among pre-school children and their families has won a Norwich nursery a National Literacy Trust award.

Time to talk with your chatterboxes

    News
  • Tuesday, December 7, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Nurseries, playgroups and primary schools are being invited to register and get involved in the annual Chatterbox Challenge by I CAN, running early in 2011.

Funny books awards

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  • Tuesday, November 23, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Dog Loves Books by Louise Yates, (pictured), is the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010 for books for children from birth to six.

Ofsted backs phonics teaching plan

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  • Tuesday, November 16, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Phonics is an 'indispensable tool' that should be used to teach children how to read by age six, according to a new report by Ofsted.

Nursery's film goes to TV

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  • Tuesday, September 28, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Children and nursery teachers from the foundation unit of a Nottingham primary school who won a competition to find the most innovative use for video in the classroom have got themselves a slot in a new series shown on Teachers' TV.

Practitioners want EYFS left as it is

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  • Tuesday, September 7, 2010
    • | Nursery World
There is 'overwhelming' support among most early years practitioners for the EYFS framework, new research by the Institute of Education suggests.

More schools get help from reading dogs

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  • Tuesday, August 24, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Reading dogs are stretching their influence to schools in Kent with the expansion of a unique project to encourage children who are reluctant to read out loud.

Analysis: More than soundbites for EYFS reform

    News
  • Tuesday, July 6, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Only meaningful dialogue between the Government and the early years sector will avoid ideological swings in policy and achieve a balanced approach to reform of the EYFS, say Margaret Edgington, Richard House and Kim Simpson of the Open EYE Campaign.

Analysis: Can only literacy guarantee a Sure Start?

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  • Tuesday, June 29, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Initiatives like Sure Start show no lasting effects on children's achievement, argues Tom Burkard, co-author of a controversial report that recommends scrapping the Early Years Foundation Stage.

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